Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed...
Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.
When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently.
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time...
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of bir...
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
People don't realize that now is all there ever is there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So...
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my bod...
When you let go of the belief that you should or need to know who you are, what happens to confusion? Suddenly it is gone. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peac...
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